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Piracy and Berber corsairs in the Mediterranean and North Africa in the sixteenth century
December 12, 20197:00 p.m.
MADRID
Casa Árabe headquarters (at Calle Alcalá, 62).
7:00 p.m.
Free entry until the event’s capacity is reached.
In Spanish.
Casa Árabe and the Teatro Real have organized this conference to be held
in Madrid on Thursday, December 12 as part of the presentation of the
opera Il Pirata, to be performed from November 30 through December 20,
2019.
The conference will be given by Juan Laborda Barceló, a Doctor of Modern History.
The Mediterranean has been a sea of brotherhoods and conflicts since long before the sixteenth century, but it was in that century that the battles between the Spanish monarch and the Sublime Porte reached the height of their hostility. By that time, the low-intensity war being fought by these expanding powers at their fringes, already having left behind marks on both North Africa and locations in Eastern Europe, would reach its peak.
Juan Laborda Barceló (Madrid, 1978) has a PhD in Modern History, and is a professor, writer, literary critic and contributor to magazines and journals like La Aventura de la Historia, Despertaferro and Qué Leer, and in media such as Cadena COPE, Ser Madrid and 4G Radio. In the academic arena, he has taken part in completing works such as the Diccionario de términos históricos (Dictionary of Historical Terms, Istmo, 2007) and Antemurales de la fe. Conflictividad confesional de los Habsburgo (Antemurals of Faith: Conflict between confessions under the Habsburgs, UNAM/Ministry of Defense, 2015). Last year, he had an essay published with the title En guerra con los berberiscos (At War with the Berbers, published by Editorial Turner, 2018). Since the year of 2012, he has run the site http://kermesliteraria.blogspot.com.
Further information about Il Pirata at the Teatro Real
The Mediterranean has been a sea of brotherhoods and conflicts since long before the sixteenth century, but it was in that century that the battles between the Spanish monarch and the Sublime Porte reached the height of their hostility. By that time, the low-intensity war being fought by these expanding powers at their fringes, already having left behind marks on both North Africa and locations in Eastern Europe, would reach its peak.
The sites deep within enemy territory, the basic action taken by the corsairs to cause destabilization and the need to adapt to this new model of warfare would characterize a whole series of efforts made by both sides. The echoes of this enormous conflict still endure in places like the Chafarinas Islands, Alhucemas and the famous rock of Vélez de la Gomera, all still Spanish possessions in the modern day. This conference will examine the fight for power in the Mediterranean and its most notable episodes in the 1600’s.
Further information about Il Pirata at the Teatro Real
Hayreddin Barbarossa, by Agostino Veneziano (1534)